Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond
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abstract
The volume publishes the proceeding of the workshop Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond held at the University of Turin on 26-27 October 2022. The volume collects papers from Assyriologists, Classicists and Biblical scholars around the topic of wisdom. Scholars have investigated wisdom from various angles, from speculative thought to literature, from science, to dance, to proverbs.
Astronomy • Narrative Dances • Episteme • Cult Festivals • Erra and Išum • Babylonian Theodicy • Scribal education • Cuneiform world • Scientia • Parody • Dance • Tupšarrūtu • Bull-Leaping • Satire • Royal legislation • Sumerian • Babylonian literature • Wisdom literature • Scholarly text compilation • Dialectics in Assyro-Babylonian texts • Greek medicine • Hittites • Science • Egyptian medicine • Rational medicine • Folktale • Religious medicine • Law • Magical medicine • Dialogue and debate • Nēmequ • Morality tale